Spend your Noche Buena in these open-on-Christmas Eve restaurants

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Christmas Eve should be spent with the ones you love. But if you don’t love to do kitchen duty for your Noche Buena feast, celebrating it in fine dining restaurants is the next best thing.

We’ve got a list of restaurants thankfully open on December 24th that you can try. One word: Reservation.

Disclaimer: Please check schedules with establishments. Promos and schedules may be subject to change without prior notice.

(Sort-of) under the sea

You may want to celebrate Christmas Eve in Hotel H2O. Yes, the hotel with rooms that have built-in life-sized aquariums. On December 24th, you can have a yummy buffet dinner at the hotel’s Pacific Ballroom from 6PM to 11PM. Santa Claus and his merry carolers will also entertain you and the kids.

Hotel H2O
Manila Ocean Park, Luneta, Manila 1000
Inquiries and reservation: (+632) 7-238-6100, (+632) 8-567-3512
Email: r.vidad@hotelh2o.com

For more info, check here: https://www.manilaoceanpark.com/promos/dazzling-christmas-eve

Eat, sing, and sing again

121 Restaurant is open 24 hours and aside from the main resto, it has Canta rooms where it can fit eight to 15 people who would like to welcome Christmas belting out their favorite songs! You can order from their assortment of traditional Filipino cuisine (their signature dishes are pork liempo and pork chop.) Choose from several restos in the metro to spend Christmas Eve in with family and friends.

121 Restaurant
Eastwood City Libis: (+632) 8-709-3860
Salcedo, Makati: (+632) 8-892-8301
Allegro, Makati: (+632) 7-856-0529
McKinley Hill BGC: (+632) 8-834-8175
Bonifacio Stopover BGC: (+632) 7-946-7429

For more info, check here: 121resto.com

Closet culinary artists

If you and your fam are the type who can’t get enough of culinary shows and the chef’s artistry in the kitchen, then Circles Event Cafe’s Christmas dinner is the reality show you can watch. Only you can actually eat what the chefs prepare! The open-theater kitchen setup offers a buffet of appetizers, fresh seafood, and cuisine from Western to Asian. Don’t forget the delectable desserts. Circles is the in-house restaurant of Shangri-La Hotel Makati.

Circles Event Cafe
Shangri-La Hotel Makati
Makati Avenue corner Ayala Avenue, Makati City 1200
Inquiries or reservations: (+632) 8814 2580
Email: rric.slm@shangri-la.com

For more info, check here: shangri-la.com/manila/makatishangrila/offer-detail/dining/holiday-feasts-at-circles-event-cafe/

Traditionally savory

The Christmas Dinner Set Menu in Red Lantern restaurant has its signature roasted duck and options of seafood such as dishes with crab, prawn, and abalone or combos of pig and beef in marinated sauces. Basically, delicious Chinese cuisine that is both familiar and new.  Your entire family will find a dish that suits everyone’s tastebuds.

Red Lantern
Solaire Resort & Casino
1 Asean Avenue. Entertainment City. Tambo, Paranaque City 1701
For inquiries or reservations: (+632) 8-888-8888

For more info, check here: https://www.solaireresort.com/article/yuletide-feast-2019

Whether you’re dining in your own home or in a fine dining restaurant of your choice, Christmas is best celebrated with the ones you love and care about. Good food, great company – a Merry Christmas indeed!